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> Just to be clear, here the request is to allow proprietary driver continue
> supporting Linux OS when adopting SR-IOV - a PCIE virtualization technology
> standardized by PCI SIG.

And the anser in the previous mail was pretty clear: no.  And while
we're at it go talk to your lawyers again that you don't have a derived
work, because I suspect you do with such intimate entangling.